*** Day 1 – June 22, 2017 ***
11:00 am – 12:00 pm | Registration
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Lunch
1:00 pm – 1:05 pm | Welcome Address – Dr. Jerry Benson, Provost and Senior Vice
President for Academic Affairs
1:05 pm – 1:10 pm | Introductory Remarks – Dr. Yvonne Harris, Vice Provost for
Research & Scholarship
1:10 pm – 1:15 pm | Workshop Kickoff – Dr. Adriana Banu
SESSION I (chair: Adriana Banu, JMU Department of Physics and Astronomy)
1:15 pm – 1:35 pm | Keynote Address: The p-Process and Why Do We Care? –
Dr. Arthur Champagne (UNC-Chapel Hill & TUNL)
Q&A (5 min)
1:40 pm – 2:00 pm | Photonuclear Reactions with Clinical Accelerators –
Dr. Haris Dapo (Akdeniz University, Turkey)
Q&A (5 min)
2:05 pm – 2:25 pm | Photodisintegration average cross sections of Dysprosium,
Erbium and Ytterbium p-nuclei near (γ,n) reaction threshold –
Dr. Stelios Stoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Q&A (5 min)
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm | BREAK
2:45 pm – 3:05 pm | An Overview of the Madison Accelerator Laboratory –
Dr. Scottie Pendleton (JMU)
Q&A (5 min)
3:10 pm – 3:30 pm | Photoactivation at MAL: Determination of Astrophysical
Photodisintegration Reaction Rates towards Understanding
the Origin of p-Nuclei – Dr. Adriana Banu (JMU)
Q&A (5 min)
3:35 pm – 4:35 pm | Roundtable Discussion (I)
4:35 pm – 4:50 pm | BREAK
SESSION II (chair: Andrew Hutton, Jefferson Lab)
4:50 pm – 5:10 pm | Photonuclear Physics and Applications in Photon Activation –
Dr. Douglas Wells (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology)
Q&A (5 min)
5:15 pm – 5:35 pm | The Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence Research Program at
HIγS: An Overview – Dr. Werner Tornow (Duke Univ. & TUNL)
Q&A (5 min)
5:40 pm – 6:40 pm | Roundtable Discussion (II)
6:40 pm – 6:45 pm | Group Photo
6:45 pm – 7:30 pm | Reception with a Welcome Address by Dr. Cynthia Bauerle,
Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm | Dinner
*** Day 2 – June 23, 2017 ***
8:30 am – 9:30 am | Breakfast
SESSION III (chair: Douglas Wells, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology)
9:30 am – 9:50 am | Exploiting X-rays in radiation therapy through the use of
radiosensitizer nanomaterials – Dr. Jessika Rojas (VCU)
Q&A (5 min)
9:55 am – 10:15 am | The Low Energy Recirculator Facility at Jefferson Lab –
Dr. Andrew Hutton (JLab)
Q&A (5 min)
10:20 am – 10:40 am | Accelerator Education and Potential Undergraduate
Research Opportunities – Dr. Todd Satogata (ODU & JLab)
Q&A (5 min)
10:45 am – 11:00 am | BREAK
11:00 am – 12:00 pm | Roundtable Discussion (III)
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm | Lunch
SESSION IV (chair: Kevin Giovanetti, JMU Department of Physics and Astronomy)
1:15 pm – 1:35 pm | Introduction to the US Particle Accelerator School –
Dr. Todd Satogata (ODU & JLab)
Q&A (5 min)
1:40 pm – 2:00 pm | Potential Ideas for Educational and Outreach Programs at
MAL – Dr. Adriana Banu (JMU)
Q&A (5 min)
2:05 pm – 3:05 pm | Roundtable Discussion (IV)
3:05 pm – 3:30 pm | BREAK
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Tour of MAL & Adjourn
******* Confirmed Speakers/Roundtable Panelists *******
- Art Champagne, Director of TUNL & Professor – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Haris Dapo, Assistant Professor – Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey
- Andrew Hutton, Associate Director, Accelerators – Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA, USA
- Jessika Rojas, Assistant Processor, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
- Todd Satogata, Professor – Old Dominion University/Jefferson Lab, Norfolk, VA, USA
- Stylianos Stoulous, Associate Professor, Nuclear Physics Lab., School of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Werner Tornow, Professor Emeritus – Duke University & TUNL/HIGS, Durham, NC, USA
- Douglas Wells, Vice President for Academic Affairs, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, USA